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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-09012025-260062
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 04]
NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2025/PAUSHA 13, 1946
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
(Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 31st December, 2024
G.S.R. 4 (E). The following draft rules further to amend the Insecticides Rules, 1971,
which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by section 36
of the Insecticides Act, 1968 (46 of 1968), is hereby published, as required by the said section, for
information of all persons likely to be affected thereby; and notice is hereby given that the said
draft rule shall be taken into consideration after the expiry of thirty days from the date on which
copies of this notification as published in the Gazette of India are made available to the public;
Objections or suggestions which may be received from any person in respect of the said draft
rule before the expiry of the aforesaid period of thirty days will be considered by the Central
Government;
Objections and suggestions in respect to the said draft rule may be forwarded to the Joint
Secretary (Plant Protection), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Department of
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi-110 001 or through email at
muktanand.ias08@nic.in
Draft Rules
1. (1) These rules may be called the Insecticides (Fifth Amendment) Rules, 2024.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Insecticides Rules, 1971, for sub-rule (2) of Rule 25, the following will be substituted:-
“(2) The fee payable for testing or analysing samples received from the Insecticides Inspector
shall also be as specified in the Second Schedule:
PROVIDED that fee payable for testing or analysing samples received from the farmers
specifically to ascertain the quality of bio-pesticide samples, shall also be specified in the Second
Schedule.
PROVIDED FURTHER that the Central Government may, after taking into consideration the
genuine difficulties, of any particular State Government, exempt from payment of the fee for such
period as it may consider reasonable.”
3. In the SECOND SCHEDULE of Insecticides Rules, 1971, in para-2, following provisio shall
be inserted:
“PROVIDED that the Testing fees for sample of bio-pesticide submitted by farmer whose
active ingredient is known, is Rs. 200/ sample.”
[F. No. 13028/01/2024-PP-I]
MUKTANAND AGRAWAL, Jt. Secy. (Plant Protection)
Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3,
Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 1650 (E), dated the 19th October, 1971 and was last amended
vide G.S.R. 228 (E) dated 22nd March, 2024.